Swiss army to buy 420 german tanks Autor(en): Farmer, Colin Objekttyp: Article Zeitschrift: The Swiss observer : the journal of the Federation of Swiss Societies in the UK Band (Jahr): - (1983) Heft 1807 PDF erstellt am: 25.09.2021 Persistenter Link: http://doi.org/10.5169/seals-690013 Nutzungsbedingungen Die ETH-Bibliothek ist Anbieterin der digitalisierten Zeitschriften. Sie besitzt keine Urheberrechte an den Inhalten der Zeitschriften. Die Rechte liegen in der Regel bei den Herausgebern. Die auf der Plattform e-periodica veröffentlichten Dokumente stehen für nicht-kommerzielle Zwecke in Lehre und Forschung sowie für die private Nutzung frei zur Verfügung. Einzelne Dateien oder Ausdrucke aus diesem Angebot können zusammen mit diesen Nutzungsbedingungen und den korrekten Herkunftsbezeichnungen weitergegeben werden. Das Veröffentlichen von Bildern in Print- und Online-Publikationen ist nur mit vorheriger Genehmigung der Rechteinhaber erlaubt. Die systematische Speicherung von Teilen des elektronischen Angebots auf anderen Servern bedarf ebenfalls des schriftlichen Einverständnisses der Rechteinhaber. Haftungsausschluss Alle Angaben erfolgen ohne Gewähr für Vollständigkeit oder Richtigkeit. Es wird keine Haftung übernommen für Schäden durch die Verwendung von Informationen aus diesem Online-Angebot oder durch das Fehlen von Informationen. Dies gilt auch für Inhalte Dritter, die über dieses Angebot zugänglich sind. Ein Dienst der ETH-Bibliothek ETH Zürich, Rämistrasse 101, 8092 Zürich, Schweiz, www.library.ethz.ch http://www.e-periodica.ch Colin Farmer Swiss Army to buy 420 German tanks Bond girls Mary Sfauin 'and Janine Andrews jrom Britain at the Swiss premiere in Zurich o/ "Octopussy". With them (right) is this year's Miss Switzerland, 22-year-old Lolita Morena. THE Swiss army is to buy 420 West German But he said this would have resulted in the businessman and Marlene was an army combat tanks - at a cost of Sfr. 4.5 thousand Swiss army's modernisation programme nurse. Standing guard one night underneath million (about £1.4 thousand million). The being postponed by a further two years. a lamp post, the /irst three uerses came to the Defence Ministry has confirmed that it is the Another major consideration which helped romance-struc/c recruit- but he/ailed to ji'nish largest armaments order in the military history to sway the Swiss was the Munich the song until 1937. of this neutral nation. manufacturer's agreement that many of the The song did not catch on immediately. It The deal follows more than two years of Leopard tanks should be built in Switzerland was not until it was broadcast on German-run intensive field evaluation tests at the Swiss under licence. propaganda programmes to North Ajrica that military testing area near Thun, in the Mr Chevallaz said this had increased the it really took o//and was eventually adopted Bernese Oberland, of the West German price of the tanks, but would ensure by the British and other allied soldiers Leopard 2 model and the rival United States employment over a seven-year period for themselves. The original version was sung by M-l Abrams. some 2,000 workers at hundreds of firms popular German singer Lali Andersen - but A first series of 210 tanks will be delivered throughout Switzerland. The Swiss army the version which became a wartime standard to the Swiss army between 1987 and 1992. currently operates Centurion tanks of British was recorded by Marlene Dietrich. The deal is subject to approval by the Swiss design, and Swiss models produced during Leip wrote several novels, comedies, short Parliament next year, but backing for the the 1970s. stories and poetry, and was also an procurement programme is considered a accomplished artist. But "Lile Marlene" virtual certainty. A second series will be due remained his main musical accomplishment. for delivery by the late 1990s. OLDEB generation readers will a/most Mr and Mrs Leip settled in Switzerland in The West German tank had been heavily certainly remember the song "Lile Marlene", 1954 and, a /ew years ago, he completed his favoured to win the multi-million contract. It is which became a hugely popular hit during the autobiography. equipped with more powerful cannon than Second World War among soldiers and the American tank, has a speed of 45 miles civilians on both sides. (72 km) an hour, and petrol consumption is L/ans Leip, German-bom writer o/ the MUSICAL memories of a different kind are lower. song, has just died in Switzerland. Lie died at being revived here this month by celebrations The West German tank is made by the his home in the Thurgau uillage o/Fruthwi/en, marking the 100th anniversary of the birth of Krauss-Maffei concern of Munich, which shortly be/ore his 90th birthday. Ernest Ansermet- Switzerland's most famous describes the Leopard as "the result of more The songwriting son o/ a Hamburg orchestral conductor. than 10 years of systematic development and doclcworlcer, Leip penned the lyrics o/ "Li/e Ernest Ansermet was bom in Vevey on intensive testing". Marlene" while on his way to the jronf during Lake Geneva on November 11, 1883, the Swiss Defence Minister Georges-André the 1914-18 war. He was stationed in Berlin oldest of seven children. His father was a Chevallaz said the makers of the American at the time and, he recalled, had two girl surveyor, his mother a schoolteacher. tank - General Dynamics of St. Louis, jriends - Lile and Marlene. He received his first piano lessons from his Missouri - had made a "last-minute offer". Lile was the daughter o/ a Berlin mother at the age of five, but went on to study reporting from Berne physics and mathematics at Lausanne many leading contemporary composers, and University and graduated in both subjects. He was invited to conduct throughout the world. Willi Ritschard also taught mathematics at local schools Along with Toscanini, Ansermet helped AS this issue of the Smiss Observer went to before abandoning his teaching career to take create the Lucerne International Music press, the sudden death was announced in up music and concentrate on conducting. Festival. He was made an honorary citizen of Berne of Switzerland's Finance Minister, Willi Ernest Ansermet studied music in Geneva, Geneva, Vevey and Lausanne and an Ritschard. Paris, Berlin and Munich and also worked as a honorary doctor of the Universities of He collapsed of a heart attack while music critic before taking up his first full-time Neuchâtel and Lausanne. walking in the mountains near his home in post - as conductor of the modest Montreux Ernest Ansermet died on February 2, Solothurn on October 16. Casino Orchestra. 1969, in Geneva, at the age of 85. Willi Ritschard died only three weeks after It was here that he met the visiting Igor his 65th birthday and two weeks after Stravinsky, and the two became close friends. announcing that he would retire at the end of Ansermet later achieved international THE British ambassador uias there. So mere this year. renown for his authoritative interpretations of leading Smiss politicians. And dozens o/other A Social Democrat, he had been a Stravinsky. And the latter helped Ansermet diplomats and dignitaries. government minister for 10 years. He entered obtain the post of conductor of Serge A United Nations con/erence in Geneva?A the cabinet as Minister of Transport and Diaghilevs Russian Ballet, with which he government reception in Berne? No - a Energy, and in 1978 also served as President made extensive tours of Europe and North champagne party in Zurich /or the Smiss of the confederation. and South America. premiere o/ the latest James Bond /i/m, The son of a shoemaker, he rose from a In 1918, Ansermet founded the Orchestre "Octopussy". plumber's apprentice to become the nation's de la Suisse Romande - and remained its The /ilm - last in the series to star Roger most popular politician. director for more than 50 years. He Moore - looks like beating the box o//'ce A fuller report will be published in next conducted the first performances of works by records set here by other Bond epics. month's Smiss Observer. SWISS SOCCER Football League tables up to and including October 7 'A' Division PI w D L Gls Pts 'B' Division PI W D L Gls Pts Sion 10 8 0 2 27 11 16 Martigny 9 5 2 2 23 12 12 Grasshoppers Zurich 10 8 0 2 22 10 16 Biel 9 4 4 1 25 15 12 St. Gallen 10 6 3 1 20 14 15 Lugano 9 3 5 1 19 10 11 Xamax Neuchâtel 10 5 3 2 25 14 13 Mendrisio 9 3 5 1 17 13 11 Servette Geneva 10 6 1 3 24 13 13 Monthey 9 3 5 1 15 12 11 Wettingen 10 5 1 4 16 16 11 SC Zug 9 4 3 2 17 15 11 La Chx-de-Fds 10 3 4 3 26 20 10 Grenchen 9 3 4 2 15 12 10 Basle 10 5 0 5 24 23 10 Fribourg 9 2 5 2 16 16 9 Zurich 10 4 2 4 20 21 10 Bulle 9 2 4 3 20 19 8 Lucerne 10 4 1 5 14 19 9 Winterthur 9 2 4 3 18 22 8 Lausanne 10 4 0 6 18 18 8 Laufen 9 2 4 3 13 19 8 Aarau 10 3 2 5 15 20 8 Baden 9 3 2 4 19 26 8 Young Boys Berne 10 3 1 6 14 23 7 Chênois 9 2 3 4 9 16 7 Vevey 10 3 1 6 14 23 7 Nordstern 9 1 5 3 8 17 7 Chiasso 10 2 0 8 8 31 4 Locarno 9 2 2 5 14 21 6 Bellinzona 10 1 1 8 9 32 3 Red Star 9 2 1 6 19 22 5 5.